All have a shadow over the earth but no shadow under earth or in grave.

A book can not control you when you are the writter.

Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.