Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates your level of attention.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'