History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

An integral part of any best friend's job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.