I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

I’ll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that was that, she never asked again.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.