I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

Big feature films are another world.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.