All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

I'm the kind of competitor where if I'm able to play, I've got to play.