As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

It feels like I’m stuck in one spot. It’s been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you’re moving on without me. And I—I’m not ready to be alone.

If your thoughts can change your actions, then your actions can change your thoughts.

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.