"I think it is valuable to be poked at and I think - and this is obviously where things are headed. It's going to be much harder to be a Christian in America ... which means to be a Christian you actually have to think it's worth it. You actually have to think it through, you actually have to process it."

“I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.”

Source : "Dylan McDermott Interview DARK BLUE Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2010.

“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.”

Source : Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.

“My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.”

“Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.”

“Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.”

“A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.”

“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”

“You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.”