The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

Love is the language all animals understand.

I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.

Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.