What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.