It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

The problem is we think we exist.

Thy word O Lord is my great hope.

Life is a beautiful dream.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.