I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

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.

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.

We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

This won't stop her from getting elected...Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

You're right. Everyone in this room with a pulse is starting to smell really good. Okay. Back in the box, better safe than sorry.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.