I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

Don't underestimate anyone, not even yourself.

Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtubHer children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give

And when we have power- when you have power, Jae, you'll need to decide what to do with it. What kind of person you want to be. If you want to be like them.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.