If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.

I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.

I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.