I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever you please.

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is 'shrinking the American pie.' And believe me, if there's one thing Christie hates, it's a small pie.

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.