It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

The world needs less destruction.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.

I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.