It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

Every cloud of confetti has a dark lining.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.