Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

I value loyalty more than money

No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow, " said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

To be happy, make other people happy.