I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

It takes very little to govern good people.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

If you get comfortable, that's how you fall off.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

I only get writer's block about once a day.