I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

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.

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.