For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.

I love a story that balances pace with detail.

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

Leadership is relationship.

I won't take no for an answer.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.