I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.

Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.