You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

You don't have to die in order to make a living!

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

You know the doubts. You are good enough. You are important. You are worthy. You are kind. You are all you need to be. You are love.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

When it comes finding the right soul mate, the problem with a lot of people is that they are expecting to find their right partners while looking at the wrong places.

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

Obamacare covers very few people.

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.