It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.

It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

Music is important.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

I've started ordering out of teen catalogues! T-shirts, little coats, and jackets for around $35 - they're amazing. I've become a really big fan of Urban Outfitters, Alloy and Anthropologie. Because I'll pay for quality, but I will not just pay for trend. Psychologically, I have trouble with that.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

Film is my big problem. I am involved too much. I love too much. I've been trying to resolve it for 35 years now, but for now, I have to keep making them.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' for the first time.

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and effort, and we control both.

I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.