I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

There ain't no haints in Detroit.

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does on stage, but I can assure you it's no act.

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.