My characters always like themselves.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?

The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.