"I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school."

"I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head."

"I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd."

"On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary."

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."

"I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition."