The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn’t impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.