The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

God may allow a disturbance, but we don’t have to be disturbed by it.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DoD spends taxpayer dollars.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire