Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?

I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

If God didn't want you to have it, He would never have let you see it.

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

Rocher was on the floor, crawling on her stomach toward Jate's feet. "I love you..., " she kept repeating, in a demonic whisper. "I have to show you... my butt.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)