The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences, and when we change the lens we change how we experience.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

If you look at the Olympic graphics for Mexico or Los Angeles, those programs don't look contemporary by today's eyes but they really look like they are of their place and time.

I've seen all the Judd Apatow movies, and I'd love to have a really funny little part in one of them some day.

The sun shines today also.

A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.