When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

How is it possible, as you get to know someone better, to realize how good his past is at not letting you find out anything more about him?

A job isn’t ‘till death do us part…

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

shane:you only love me for my abs clair:shut up loser shift off

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.