As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

Good comedy is ageless.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.