I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

People are afraid to die, and even more afraid to live.