I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.