Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.