Diligence acquires wealth

When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.