The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

I think people really want to be happy.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

I intend to remember ... even the sun shines above the storm.

I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.