If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

Slow as your own dubious grace.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS?

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!