The source of work? Man’s mind...man’s reasoning mind.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.

Dance to the beat of your own drum

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

I think my greatest strengths are my hands. I am also good at getting separation from the defender and finding ways to get open. I am also a good route runner.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.