He once had his toes amputated so he could stand closer to the bar.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

He once had his toes amputated so he could stand closer to the bar.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Pick your battles.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled.

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

I'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.

I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.'

Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.

There are two types of people in this world cheerleaders and those who wish they were.

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but still hold hands.

A good liar must remember his lies.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.