I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

The bluest skies . . . are in Seattle.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer - I rewrote my own destiny.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

I love metal songs about metal. That's one of my favorite things. Nobody does that any more. Nobody sings about how metal they are, or about their fans, or about how crazy their pits are.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.