There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.