I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love.

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't.

The two of us were everything that we needed to be to one another as we sat behind those strings.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.