I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

Spirituality is a magnet, and the magnet affects iron, not the wood or stone. Similarly, faith and devotion are iron, who has that, spirituality touches the believer, not an unbeliever.

Ocean is ocean.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.