A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.However, it is short-lived and fatal.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

I love a garden and a book.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.