My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves

The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.