My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

I can feel myself dying inside.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

Sometimes we forget that the top of the wave, the top of the crest is always the bottom, there is no inside without an outside, and there is no up without a down.

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.