It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.