If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

The truth for every superhero is that beneath the greatest pain lies the greatest power.

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.

Only you can tell your story.

A person cannot tell the truth, if they don't live the truth & they can't live the truth, if they don't know the truth_ ♥ Cutting Truths

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

Lately we have had many losses.