I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.
Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.
There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. . . . I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.
I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.
I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.