Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

One relationship didn't work out, but that doesn't mean relationships never work out. One single experience isn't representative of all of them.

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.

Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?