You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' ↗
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another. ↗
When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased. ↗
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. ↗
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. ↗