I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

I have learned two things in my life: there is a God, and I am not him.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.