You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.

To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.