I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

My theory on education is... get one.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.