I became an actor by accident, not by design.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.