To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Errors are many, truth is unique.

When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part [Andy Bernard] and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.