Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Healing from childhood abuse is not going mad, it is going sane.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

President Obama and his wife are going to Kenya. Donald Trump said, 'While you're there, pick up your birth certificate.'

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.