We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

If you listen to music daily, you find strength of survival.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.