I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them.

Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second a book could scintillate forever.

What if pretending is interfering with the person you’re meant to be?” he said.

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.