Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

I don't see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!