It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

When times get rough, keep your head up.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

You can expect me goin' hard, collaborating; you know what I'm sayin'?

I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.