Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]