Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

You be wise to stop yo’ negative ways, mister.

I am a perfectionist in spirit

Life loves the liver of it.

You bang that piano real nice.

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender