Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

At the end, regret only what you didn't do.

When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

The question is just as important as the answer.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.