Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.