"I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death."

"I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line."

"My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press."

"If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later."

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

"There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?"

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

"You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for."