I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

If you are able to forget yourself, you will know you would not be forgotten!

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.