I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity.

No two people see things the same.

If we make a small commitment towards keeping our talent alive, one day it becomes a beautiful gift, which nourishes us, makes our lives complete.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

Spending time with children is more important than spending money on children.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.