Steve Carell Quotes

When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

I have always been a letter writer, and I found when my numbers got over half a million, I couldn't think about how many people there were out there. I had to think as if I were writing a letter to my brothers and sisters, to my good friends with whom I have had a correspondence since I could hold a pen.

When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

I was a pen pal with one guy, a long time ago. I think we only wrote to each other twice. We didn't really keep it up that long. But, I love it. I think it's really sweet and very creative and freeing, when you get to put a pen to paper, 'cause you don't really do it that much these days, with all this technology.

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

My mom and I are very close.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

I feel like people make such a big deal out of sexuality. It's so weird to me, because at the end of the day, it's just about soul connection. It's just about who you connect with.

The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.

Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.