Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

I like having written better than I like having acted.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.