At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

Well, I refer to Celebrity Jeopardy as the short-bus Jeopardy, because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.

Aside from accidentally by my kids, like wrestling around with my kids, no one has ever punched me in the face.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

You must always think big while you start small.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

The angels can sometimes come as wordless words as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again...

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.