The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

As an actor, I look at first what I can borrow from what I really feel.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.