I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

We should never let another person get under our skin to the point that we feel hate for them

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.