I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.

Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.

Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.I don’t know how to be without you.

May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

Love and do what you like.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.