Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.