Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Normal is the average of deviance.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.