Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

The world is less violent than it has ever been.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.