Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

Leadership moves people doing things they are not paid for yet.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.