"It's an ongoing joy being a dad."

"I don't think I'm funny."

"I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning."

"I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore."

"I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things."

"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."

"I'm not afraid of death."

"'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."