As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.

I would never put my job before my family.

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.

My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter...

I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.

I should get a manicure more often.

It's funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.