I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

My workout is my meditation.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age

I really fight for my privacy.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.