We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Simplicity is the best wisdom.

Change is the mother of growth and maturity.

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.