I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

It seems there are no rich on death row.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

If't were not for my cat and dog I think I could not live.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.