It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

When we rely on our own strength, God’s opportunities become inaccessible to us.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

From the fact that E is evidence for T and the fact that T entails M, it doesn't follow that E is evidence for M.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.