Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

If you're scared, do something.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn't really want your opinion. She wants her opinion - just in a deeper voice.

Showing your true self sometimes don't give you any benefit, but at least you do honest to your self and God.

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

expectation isn't the same as desire

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.