I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

My success is not who I am.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

There is no justification for having an affair.

Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery.

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

I really feel work is gorgeous. It's the only thing you can depend upon in life. You can't depend on love.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large only sharp

A purpose an intention a design strikes everywhere even the careless the most stupid thinker.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.

What happened on the road to gender equality A lot of work happened.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.

The only easy day was yesterday.