If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Pursue great things.You are destiny for greatness.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The only people who should play for England are English people.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)