If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal.

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

If people don't connect to Eric Carter's struggles, I'm sure they'll find a character in this series to connect to. That's ultimately what it's about for me.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.

I am an actor through and through.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Its not a war on drugs its a war on personal freedom.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I know that's definitely the way for me to run races - instead of trying to burn up at the front and blowing up, it's always better to be passing people at the end.

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.

Garden as though you will live forever.

There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.