To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

lie can run but they can’t hide

There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.

It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.