I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

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.

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

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.

If you change your way of thinking about failure, you can transform your weaknesses into strengths & realize opportunities for growth.

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.