As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.

Cruelty is the only sin.

The best way to cleanse the world from monsters is by not becoming one.

I love Christmas. Christmas is family time.

I want to be undefeated for a while and end my career as one of the greatest of all-time.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

As far as my inspirations, I just like anyone who is making good music - period.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.