I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Everything we do affects other people.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

To understand me, you have to meet me...

Just taking the time to look at children and understand them is what everyone needs.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.

Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.