There's an old adage, " he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

A life has to move or it stagnates.

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: 'UNSURV

A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.

Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.