No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.