Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Adversity begets spirituality.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.

Live how you want to live, not being influenced by others around you.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.