You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.