I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me.

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way

Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.

I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features

Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.