It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

At my core, I know this: God is God. All that lives and breathes flows from him in both original and ongoing states.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.