"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."

"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."

"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."

"Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life."

"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet."