"I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out."

"Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have."

"I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for."

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."

"You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause."

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."

"Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired."

"Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of our country and to the stability of its’ political system—hence the selection of the fittest characters to expound the laws, and dispense justice, has been an invariable object of my anxious concern."