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.

What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

It's pain that changes our lives.