I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.