What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.

A ‘biomass’ man repeats what he sees

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.