It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

Every time I race, I will race so fiercely my legs cry.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.