My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of the things he brought back was a puzzle box, which obsessed me for a long time.

Federal spending is like a massive ship that takes a very long time to turn.

I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.

I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.

I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.