E. W. Howe

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.