I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

The key to developing your intuition is developing your self-observation skills.

People are like chains, the closer they are, the stronger they become.

Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.