There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Now I know there are many Americans who say 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'

A man marries to have a home but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home goes to an all-white school and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Since I travel so much it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

There is nothing more important than a good safe secure home.

I feel like I've never had a home you know? I feel related to the country to this country and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Charity should begin at home but should not stay there.

There is something permanent and something extremely profound in owning a home.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud proud and unapologetic.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Charity begins at home but should not end there.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes intolerances and violations.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

But whenever history is in the making there's some kind of intangible feeling.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Since I was there in the very beginning I know the history of the characters. So I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

I think there was a revolution in poetry associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.