When it's your time, it is your time..

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny..

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop..

When you create a movie, you create something in your image..

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves..

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it..

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over..

We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental o….

To me, love has always meant friendship..

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself..

A good poem about failure is a success..

We Learn about love by loving..

Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right respon….

I'm unshockable, fortunately -- or unfortunately..

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's..

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal d….

My own mind is my own church..

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful..

The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfa….

He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical ev….

I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative hab….