They would grow old. They would forget me.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.

We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

You should try to get fired once in a while. It's good for you.

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?