Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

You're baloney without the mayo.

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

I have exes Im friends with and exes Im not friends with. It depends on what you decide together. I do think that sometimes trying to maintain that bond can be healthier than walking away.