In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

There is no success other than happiness.

With the most rare insight into human spirit and potential, William has the gift to tell you what is true.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.