If your circle doesn't challenge you to grow beyond your comfort zone, then you are definitely in the wrong circle.

It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Hunger is good discipline.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

You are only as big as your dreams.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.