You know what lies are for.

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.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.