If I were rich, I would buy him a new black suit. ... If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this week's on three Cherry Flips ...

I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.

our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

I know one thing, Bill Clinton hates Barack Obama.

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

For the most part I try to just stay focused not on my play but on our team.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.