I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.

The natural order of life is not the thinking and imagination, but living in the moment, with absolute trust.

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it's not totally satisfied.

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.