I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.

In this universe, love is the liberating force from the prison of judgment.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.