Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart..

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi..

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't….

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation,….

Be brave enough to live creatively..

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come ….

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make somethin….

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the ….

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is st….

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.….

I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone w….

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scie….

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what th….

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse..

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to….

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put ….

I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican..

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am..

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the hea….

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old..