The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES.

I'm always amazed that if you pick up a script of something you played years ago, it all comes back so quickly. Even in your body, you remember your blocking and how it felt.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.