To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I was looking down the road of "life gone by" and I realized this road of life is not as long as it looks. Travel with caution and maximize every mile. It can be a beautiful journey.

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

I care about what I look like on the red carpet.

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

Don't leave the one who loves you for the one you like because the one you like will leave you for the one they like.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.