To love someone is to isolate him from the world wipe out every trace of him dispossess him of his shadow drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

I keep dreaming of a future a future with a long and healthy life not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book I was not thinking about publishing and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books I see them very visually.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me a spotlight could go out I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.