You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice."Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

I believe in the power of weakness.

very funny my sarcastic friend

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block, I really don't care if you're jealous or not.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.