Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way

No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands    towards these strange doors    to these foreign gates.

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.

A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand.

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

The EU is a community of values, not military buildups.

You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.