We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

Life is a dream of roses and the thorns prick us back to reality.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.