Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.