I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Greatness is not greater than you. You have total control over greatness. You can decide to be great and it will happen.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

You must accept something before you can change it.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.