I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not...

We aren't cool and never will be.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.

Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

Make good choices in order to manifest your true identity

When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people's credibility which won't fit! Live like you!

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate to the story or can find a piece of their own story hidden within - regardless of the...

The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of the loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing...

I'm turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.

Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.

She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.

It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always his course had...

And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections,...

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I...

Do not speak to me of martyrdom, of men who die to be remembered on some parish day. I don't believe in dying though, I too shall die. And violets like castanets will echo me.

Beautiful people blossomed forth from out of the polyglot, people who really had a lot to them, only it had been smothered by all the eternal social games that had been set up. Suddenly they found...

You know, if you pretend not to be who you really are, you can end up with the wrong job, the wrong friends, God knows what else. Not your own life.