As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

We will bear much fruits, when we connect to the true vine, the Creator.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

I know I have pretty good instincts.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

God's desire is that we excel.

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.