A good woman inspires a man

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.