"I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention."

"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron."

"One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later."

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 22 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 86."

"Wisdom principle 8 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 60."

"I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models."