A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

A temperate style is alone classical.

People are always beautiful when you love them.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.