There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

A father’s only dream is to hear his daughter ask to kill some zombies. Go for it, sweetie. Make this old man proud.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.