Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual

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 . . .

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

Oh no. I got a customer service person from another country.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.