I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.

I would fly to the moon with my wings of love so that I could express my lifelong admiration of you.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.