In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.

There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.

I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters.

We all have pain, Wes. It isn't life sithout it. What matters in life isn't that we escape pain. What matters is that we overcome it.

What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.

I'd love to design a school.

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.