What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!.

I just find something to learn in everything..

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously..

Women destroy me. I allow them to..

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge..

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain..

I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou….

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful..

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that..

I'm pretty confident..

Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period….

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for it..

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after an….

I am open to everything..

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can’t choose to be unaffected by it.

It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith..

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change..

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same..

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything..