My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.