The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

Form follows beauty.

Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.

I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

I lived in San Francisco and did the Stegner fellowship for two years, and it was amazing. From fall 2008 to spring 2010, I was there.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

Form follows beauty.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

When we had the hurricanes - Hurricane Harvey - we gave 80,000 pillows down there.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Trouble follows the Clintons everywhere.

Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.