I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Tomorrow is always a better day.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.