Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

Smile and laugh... Laugh and smile... Laugh and smile every day

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Better to give then to take.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

I am proud to be an actor.