“A full beard looks cool.”

“I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.”

“Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'”

“I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.”

“I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if ...”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”

“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.”

“Ive won his heart, but its like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And its not really marriagenot like the marriage you...”

“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”

“I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.”

“A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.”