Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.