[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

We are all Michaelangelos.