What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

A lot of young people think they are not going to die - and that's a great thing about being a young person, is living in this carefree oblivion.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

Relationships are possible, but are definitely not a road paved with roses.

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken.

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.