In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

I'm aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can't stop myself.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym..it’s a lifestyle

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

The Jews run all the banks. Well, we do. The Jews run the media. Well, we do. You know, I mean they're right about all that stuff.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?