Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?

Even with or without the show I'm always thinking of the next thing. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. That's kind of been the story of my career.