Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Life is like an ocean, jump right in.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.