A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk for hours and hours, Sylvia Plath and me!

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

People like passion in politics.

Cause whatever you love could be taken away, So live like it's your dying day.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.