There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

My essential identity is that of a writer.

Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.