Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.

The motive for marriage must be eternal not just temporal.

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

May the God of your choice bless you.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.