Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Just because you shot Jesse James, don't make you Jesse James.

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

Punctuation are like road signs

As nice an offer as that was, I'm afraid I'm not interested.""I see the job as your only chance for survival.

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

If you believe you can read you can

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?