Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

maybe we destroy our own lives

This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants — virtuousness — or what she needs — protection.

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.