Of course, when you're a parent, you can never really be sick.

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet.

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Declare the sacred utterances.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.(from Who's Who in Hell)

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

How can you have a dead service with a living Christ?

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.