E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?