On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

Act quickly, think slowly.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.