There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience

It's illegal to be a terrorist in the United States.

I would say that in the past year I have had to begrudgingly admit that I am finally a success of some level, sure.

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

How beautiful the days, They come and go.

I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

You know it doesn’t work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)