When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play.

I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood.

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

You are in charge of your own happiness

Most people don’t think most of the time. They just use other people’s thoughts as a crutch to get by.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.