I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.

Aspirations don’t make poets, perseverance does. Flow with the emotions, let your imagination soar, find what ignites the fire within and let it go wild.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.