Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

I'm really white trash.

In memory Venice is always magic.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)

The fact that you fell out of bed makes some people think you had more than one drink before you called for help.

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.