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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.

I'm just going to do my job, what coach wants me to do, be a defensive piece, and when needed to be a scorer, I'm going to be that.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.

I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism.

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.

Rising political tribalism, shamelessly exaggerating our opponents' claims or behavior, is leaving us vulnerable: No one loves America's internal fighting - and our increasingly siloed news consumption - more than Vladimir Putin.