I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life.

My talent matters more to me than the money does.

I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.