I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

When I told my wife she was lousy in bed - she went out - she got a second opinion.

Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]