To search for the old is to understand the new..

I live a pretty anonymous life..

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there..

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me..

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want..

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards..

If you want to be great, do it. There’s nothing holding you back. It’s all in your control..

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass..

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while..

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?.

I've always been reasonably fatalistic..

I just think I have always had a good attitude about everything and never got ahead of myself. No one wants to work with a jerk..

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off..

I'm the best Manning..

I don't want there to be millions of people that are permanently barred from every becoming Americans..

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time..

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for..

Do NOT say you “can’t”! You can say, “I don’t want to”. You can say, “I’m not willing to put forth the effort”. But DO NOT say you CAN’T!.

I want to be out there every single snap, every single play..

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays yo….

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei.