We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

The Son symbolizes the hope of humanity, bringing light to the darkness of our material existence, and reuniting us with the divinity of our own higher nature.

To serve the many, you first serve the few.

Brave is doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do.

The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!