The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you’ve come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

True salvation is freedom from negativity.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

Imagery is like music.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.