Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Verbal arguments should always be suspect.

It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.