I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

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.

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.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

Romney raised $10 million. That’s a dollar for every position he’s had on healthcare.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Children notice things first, people later.