I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

We are all constantly being refined by fire and smoothed over by grace.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

If I did better... I'd be God.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.