People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it
I had been writing professionally since 1988
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf
This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.
Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
People would tell me sometimes that I should model, but I was like, I dont know!