Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.