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 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'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.

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.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.

My point is that she's [Laura Bush] busy and I'm busy, which makes our marriage not only interesting but exciting.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost you mind?

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.