That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

Life is too short for negativity. Focus all your energy to create happiness.

Three years ago hadn’t been the right time for them. Now certainly was.

In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now!

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.