Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me.

ALATE POSTULATEWhen angels were invented, flight required wings

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.