Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

When you're in touch with your heart, you feel a connection with others and you have access to your wisdom.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.