I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more.

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.

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

There is no wisdom but in death

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.