"When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God."

“[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct summation of the totality of all experimental and observational evidence.”

“Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.”

Source : "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

“A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.”

“I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.”

“My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didnt exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. This has influenced my work a lot - I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.”

“I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.”

“Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.”

“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”