Hoboken is a neat place.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

Hoboken is a neat place.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

If you want to soar like an eagle in life you cant be flocking with the turkeys.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.

Film is a strange thing.

White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.

Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Nothing screws up your Friday like realizing its Thursday.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.

What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.

He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.

Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.

I want to do the right thing and not hide anymore. I want to march for tolerance, acceptance, and understanding. I want to take a stand and say, “Me, too“.

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.