In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

The kingdom of this world will come closer into becoming the kingdom of the world if we all take possession of our spheres

Nothing can replace confidence and single-minded pursuit of purpose.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

Wise words were never spoken, never thought never lived.P.C.M. HermansSeptember 27, 2016

Strong people define themselves

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.