You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in television is stick to your guns. If you're making a show, you make the show.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.