Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

Success--something your friends will never forgive you.

Even the most beautiful legs end somewhere.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

Life--a lifelong death sentence.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.

The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly.

It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.

I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.

Perfection is a moving target

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.