If you're not running through chaos together with kids, you're not really playing together.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.

I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean, I've already done my best books, so I'd like to just make something I also like now.

A person in such a hurry seldom gets good results

The worship of power is an old religion.

Practice what you preach and let people learn from you

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.

Ideals make reason inaccessible.

[S]ometimes people make a mistake for so long that it starts to feel like it's not a mistake at all. And then one day, you tell yourself it's for the best.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.