I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.

I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.