I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.

Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.