I'm just riding the wave until it hits the shore.

I'm just riding the wave until it hits the shore.

Do not allow yourself to lose sight on the way to your future, while wandering in the darkness of the past.

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

Coincidence if traced far enough back becomes inevitable.

Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth.

In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about the threat emanating from Tehran.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

I don’t know what I’d do without you, I don’t know where I’d be, you’re not just another boy, your everything to me.

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.