My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Searching for what's beyond appearances opens our divine eyes to see the concealed facts in experience.

People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it. Open your soul and they will stop and watch.

We are interconnected.

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.