​Tomorrows dreams are important but to make the present meaningful is a far better dream.

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the

Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life.

This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.