The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

Like attracts like and we attract just what we are in mind.

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.