Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

She watched him for a long moment, an adorably annoyed frown wrinkling her forehead. "You're obnoxious when you're right.

no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.