I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

Politics is a blood sport.

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Go get a job after you take a bath.