The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.

For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.