People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

Never have so many left so much to so few.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.