Whether it's something that happened twenty years ago or only yesterday I must start out with an emotion, one that's close to me and that I can understand.

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.