When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.