Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.

I think you always have regrets.

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

I believe that even today we can only tell a simple story without really interfering with gameplay. But in the future, I think it will almost be a requirement of all storytellers when they create games, how they can tell a more complex story without conflicting with the gameplay.

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

I sought my soul but my soul I could not see. I sought my God but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

I really can't tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it's such a high; it's like running a marathon. You just can't get that feeling anywhere else.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not caused by transportation. Sometimes local food is more energy efficient. But often it's not. The strongest case for locavorism is to eat less that's flown on planes, and not to worry about boats.

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.