I have a tendency to really stuff things — like, I don't really express certain feelings.

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

You cant take good health for granted.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

The light is reached not by turning back from the darkness, but by going through it.

I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.