The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

When I'm stylizing, it's all about accessories.