Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist real

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

Love is, and I hope it never isn't.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.