Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

I walk the beach to smile at other peopleand their busy children, trying to findanother way to save the world.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.