L.A. was never really that interesting to me. I never really liked it. I like it now more than ever. It took me years to get used to it. But, it's not my kind of place.

I love being funny and talking with fellas.

Enjoy the now. Time flies, enjoy it while you can.

I want to be in Chicago. I'd like to.

With two kids. It's always too busy.

I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

The days take forever, but they just fly by. It's so weird.

I remember taking great pride in making Brad Pitt laugh. I always had a soft spot for him. He's such a sweet, sweet man.

I was never a guy that was really good with a gang of guys anyway.

The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

This won't stop her from getting elected...Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.