Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

With Cosmic Ordering you can count your chickens before they have hatched.

Leave footprints of love and kindness on the seashore of humanity.

We become what we think!" (Philippians 4:8, 9)

The artist is always beginning.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.