Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

Neither care too much nor too little about the feedback of others.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.