"Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."

"Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film."

"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."

"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

"Energy directed with unwavering focus can bend the arc of destiny. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy."

"Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."