You know what’s best for you, and you know what will make you happy.

I definitely fell in love with Dracula when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Thoughts don't become things

In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It’s written for writing’s sake, as if I were to say, “Let me tell you I’m dying.” Well of course I am. So are you.

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.