Optimism is a cure for many things.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don't have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.