The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Picking me up, Lucas lays me on a blanket of soft sand and says, "You have no idea what you do to me.

And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

If nothing else, I have money.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.