Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.