Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The magic to attain victory is simple…..Just believe.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart