I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

We are only enslaved in our mind.

When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

We've focused a lot on visible evidence. We believe that a community needs to make the visible statement about who the community is.

I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.