Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Life is a concept, like the “universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.

Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.

If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.