I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

The secret of charm is bullshit.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to.

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.