When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.

Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

...it was more like bleeding than crying.

Though people see me in a good light all the time, I turn off my phone and take time to have a good conversation with myself while enjoying nature alone when I'm having a hard time.