It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

I'm a magician, not a singer.

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

I was not elected to serve one party.

Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.