Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence, " said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.

Moon and earth is the longest known stable love affair known to man kind

The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready.

To govern is to choose.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?

You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.