I know how to separate my own laundry.

I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

It's fun to play happy people.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

Good fortune is created/written/made.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Work hard. Someone's always watching.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.