Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

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.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

Luck never gives; it lends.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

Remember, all things are possible to those who believe!

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.