Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

I have been vain since birth.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we’ve done with it.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Is an egg a vegetable?

When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.