There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

Your passion is your connection to God.

We live as best we may in a world of worms.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.