Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.
You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.