If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.

Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.

So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.

The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.