There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?

Nothing makes sense, not that much of the world ever did." Quote from the book: "UnHoly Pursuit: The Devil on My Trail.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.