I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Humans make art to remember and be remembered, ” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.

Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.