I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Lets nail it down, lets get it right.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.