The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it.

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

Everybody's got regrets. Everybody's made mistakes. Nobody's perfect.

I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.

Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

Our lives can change with every breath we take.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

There is no there---there is only here.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.