“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible...”

“Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.”

“Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, Respect me; Im a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.”

“Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.”

“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”