When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Brought together by blood, kept together by love.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.

Micromanage the process, not the people.

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.