I am what I feel and think and do.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

We all must serve the Lord in whatsoever capacity He has called us to serve

Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.

I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.