What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

It is not easy but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes the better.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood the property of all women.

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.