"As between mileage and experience choose experience."

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."

"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."

"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."

"Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights."

"We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy."

"My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more."

"My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did."