I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

My family is well, and that's what's important.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

Fear feeds the imagination.

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.