Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.