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.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I’m going to play and what they...

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one… If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

People think I’m trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It’s really that I’m a tomboy at heart.

And before I’d got to the end of the first paragraph, I’d come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it’s this: where am...

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn’t. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And,...

I don’t care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what’s not right is from experience.

The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn’t conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill...

I have to remind my dad, ‘Journalists – no matter how many cigars they smoke with you – are not your friends, so don’t talk to them.’

Whenever I don’t’ have to wear makeup, it’s a good day.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that’s a high title to claim.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.