TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.

Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.