Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race.

To read without writing is to sleep.