Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life.

Well, bugger me, " cried Jonas when he saw Richie with his bow, "is it Robin Hood or Adam Bell come to save us? Nay, it's Richie O'the Bow, hero of ballad and song!

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

The beggarly last doit.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.