Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

I believe in traditional marriage.

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.