If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.