When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

I wanna know everything about you and wanna go down every road youve been. Where your hopes and dreams and wishes live. Where you keep the rest of your life hid. I wanna know the girl behind that pretty stare. Take me there.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth you regain your perspective and find renewed strength.

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of but the very essence of all that is. And saying that Im saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do what we want to be but we dont have the resources.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

If you live for people’s acceptance you’ll die from their rejection.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy it will in the end not produce food either.

Its fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. Thats what human life is all about enjoying things.

What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

Mother the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

I don't do celebrity.