Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.

I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.

Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.