In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Being afraid wouldn't find justice for the family---this boy seemed to understand that.

Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

You are in recovery if you say you are.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"