The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.