What was once your crown will now be your collar, and you will wear it until you learn what it is to submit.

The three rules to writing a novel1) Write2) Write more3) Keep writing

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.

I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.