If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.

The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

I would find it more difficult if somebody else was doing the action.