Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

The more that you dehumanize somebody, the easier it is to kill them... deport them... do whatever you can.

Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel.

I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.