My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

Hoboken is a neat place.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

Men would be angels angels would be gods.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.