This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

When I became conscious of being a person, when I was very small, I knew that I was from Indiana, but I had never seen Indiana. I was born there, but we moved when I was, like, a year old. I always had a sense of a place that was far away from where I was. I would research it and find out about it and I remember on Christmas morning I used to always call Indiana to find out what the weather was like; to see if it was snowing or not.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.