They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.

I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.