The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I'm comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He's comfortable in us.

I have popular support.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. It's not admirable to want love, it just is.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

It means a lot to defend my title.

The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it's harder to do.