Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.

Liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of the soul.

Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

To be happy, the only thing you need is to have happy thoughts.

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

Being patted is what it is all about.

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.