Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.