There's nothing good about divorce.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Sometimes we carry mistakes we haven't even made yet.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good