Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

All truth is God's truth.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.