I am just blessed they are such great, really wonderful kids.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I had to stand in front of my refrigerator, which was open, dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth. If I did that, I was good. Otherwise I was nauseous.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life

You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

There is no limit to the extent of the potential that is open to you.

It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Let's hope the first comes first.

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.