The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Your consent is your character.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

I just love, I love, I love movies.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you'll be amazed at what you can do.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.