Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.