Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.

Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Plan your work and work your plan.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.