They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.

All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car.