I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.