I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there's no exit in any direction'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

We goaltenders tend to be very proud bastards.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.