It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

I can't not put humor in a book.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.