I outlived the bastards..

Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face..

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..

As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….

Discover what you are..

I didn't not perform..

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling..

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic..

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault,….

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

We are being programmed by mental pygmies..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your ….