My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry.

I find myself very, very happy to be a weird writer.

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.