Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']
seize the day, because believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.
I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.
There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.
Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great story. I've always been much more of a listener.
No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.
