When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

It's never fun to read death threats.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.

She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

Never mistake motion for progress.

I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.

Just because someone is very charismatic, it doesn't mean that they're genuinely qualified.