"I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more."

"My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over."

"Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days."

"If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music."

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death."

"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."