Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

You will never reach the stars without courage to lose sight of the ground.

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

I've mellowed quite quickly.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.