How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

You can recognize the Spirit of Christ within you when you speak to one another or speak of another person with a warm smile instead of with a frown or scowl.