I would rather make my name then inherit it.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

What I mean is... maybe it's only us...

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

The spark in his eye, which is one's very self, caught the spark in hers that was herself, and for a moment they looked into each other's natures.

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

Born ham, that's basically me.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.