Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.