There's no good guys and bad guys.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.