There is no spoon.

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king.

Do you believe in Jesus?Jesse looks at me so brown-eyed it hurts.He nods."I do, " he says.I sit up."I think you look like him.

One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ...... and drinking coffee.

In my mind, I saw a string stretching from Henry’s heart at Quiet Waters to my heart. It was taut and it vibrated with Henry’s worries and fears and I felt them all.Deeply. I felt them all.

Solitude – the space between thinking” from Cinderella In Focus.

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.