deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.
Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.
Oh, the weather outside is weather.
A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.
Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal; they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.
You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.