I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

Where there is money, there is fighting.

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.