Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life.

Christians are the carriers of truth that the whole world needs

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

There really is, for humankind there’s really no such thing as race. There’s different tribes but not different races. We’re all one species.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

Even the idiot may have a message for us

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Books are not men and yet they are alive.