If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...

… real life hardly ever unfolds the way we’d like it to, not like in a story.

There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.

We need stories in order to understand ourselves, for good or bad, to be inspired or horrified, it's how we cope with being human and how we decide what type of person we will become.

Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

You cling on to the truth

There's so much love in this world.

Like all living things, you were created for unlimited growth and possibilities. Keep growing. Keep changing. Be everything you were meant to be.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board.

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.