They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

You write the script, and then you just go over it 400 times and make all the jokes better. It really is true. That's essentially the way it works.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.