I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

The Impossible is Always Possible

It is values that form our decisions.

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.