At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Paradise Is The Absolute Self~Respect.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don't have a country.

Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.