If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

[F]ear is a great ally.

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool.

I play basketball. I can't control the media, the way I play. I can't control all of it.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.