I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.
My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ...
Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
