We were either gonna win the game or win the fight.

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.

There is always someone better off than you, and there is always someone worse off than you.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take him seriously.