If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.