I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things.

I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while.