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

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.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

I'm so

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.

I care about writing music and playing my music.

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle