I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.