Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

By the hairy balls of Jesus

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.

When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can't be so, you don't get demons our side of the river, the guards won't let them over London Bridge.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

Her voice is full of money.

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water...

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.