Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I use them as a fashion accessory.

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

I think I am an adult.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

expectation isn't the same as desire

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.