I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?

The laws of a state change with the changing times.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.