I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Alice, it took big, dumb Talon Dodo thirty seconds to get you so pissed about a poker hand pun that you were about to beat him to death with your cane.

For me, every day is a new thing.

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve.