I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.