We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

Self-knowledge makes me happy.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.

Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.