I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Walken

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Diane Abbott

Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.

Chinese Proverb

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

Rashida Jones

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Carlos Fuentes

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Janis Ian

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

George Eliot