Success is often harder to take than failure.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Invest money and you'll get a check. Invest in people and you'll get time.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth

It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.