Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you ….

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling..

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music since their music is quite complex. They were a little glammy….

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're de….

Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pool….

How can you live in the Northeast?.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals.

I like to do something I fear..

The things which must be must be for the best..

Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major - and that I also read a lot as a kid - if I hear….

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and eve….

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find..

I'm only interested in poetry..

the history of melancholia includes all of us..

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make….

Be cautious, understand the consequences of your decisions. You have to understand the consequences of every decision that you make. If you decide to….

I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter….

Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or ar….

In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy….

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything..