I am the character you are not supposed to like.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Sometimes it's too heavy to give a second chance.

One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.