I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

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.

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.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

Love is being honest with yourself at all timesbeing honest with the other person at all timestelling, listening, respecting the truthand never pretendingLove is the source of reality

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Work is a form of service to God.

If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.