I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry. . . If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.
Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like.
I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.