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

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.

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.

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

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

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living.

You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.