[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

You already know the difference between being a gracious person versus a rude one.

I love men not because they are men but because they are not women.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.