For almost 18 years you’re taught to sit down, shut up, and raise your hand. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do for the rest of your life.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

I want plants built and I want factories built and I want the jobs. I don't want the jobs going to other countries.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.