When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.

The past has to inform the present...

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.