I certainly don't see myself as Caligula.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary

Life's a one way ticket

I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

I like my coffee like I like my women - Black and Strong.

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.

Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.