We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.