A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

Know when to push, pull or hold your followers, lest you push them while they are on the edge of a cliff

You know, you're a great barbecuetionist.

One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.