The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Know your Soul

Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

How many mistakes can one life survive?

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.