What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

I've been proud to work on some really great children's shows, but they are not my only interest.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.