I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

But by blood, no wolf am I

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.