You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.
Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
When you think about it, what's the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man?
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
