My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

It wilna end wi' me, Campbell. Slay me, and you'll face my brothers and after them my Muhheconneok kin. You cannae possibly kill us all.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

Thinking like others is ok for things that are not important to you.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm.

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.