Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.

Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.

It's a shame I'm going to be forced to commit severe testicular trauma upon that boy

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.