I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.

A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person's belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.-Kevin McNamara

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.