Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.