The great fish eat the small.

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

I never intended to make art.