"It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy."

“If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.”

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“I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks.”

“A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.”

“I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.”

“The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that aside; it's not worth thinking about when I'm there. My agenda as an artist doesn't go away when I teach. It actually gets intensified.”

“There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.”

“If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.”

“I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.”