Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

always be positive, don't depend on others

All this seeing.All this relentless taking in.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.