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It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Dreams show us our infinate desires in life. If you dream it, you can achieve it.

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.