What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.