I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can`t explain.

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.