I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

Do you trust me?” he said. Olivia met his hard gaze, and a frisson of uncertainty ran down her spine. She did trust him. Completely. But did he trust her? And why did that matter so much?

I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good.

Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.

If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.

I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.