My only real claim to anyone’s attention lies in my writing.

Every casting director I’ve met is a woman.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain’t.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I’ve worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell...

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Accidents, try to change them it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don’t only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents’ and grandparents’ lives come to you.

Everything’s a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There’s no guarantee.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn’t matter. I’ll do it if it means something...

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You don’t want to be photographed? You don’t want to be known? Then you don’t need to be out there peddling movies.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

What I couldn’t help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to...

I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

I’ve pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

I’ve been noticing gravity since I was very young.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

I can’t wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We’d be laughing and having...

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.