Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.