If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

I know my face better than anyone else.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

You cannot police me, so get off my areola

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.