... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

THE BEST THING YOU CAN GIVE TO GOD AND HUMANITY IS YOURSELF.

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was

I've never lived in a building without my name on it.

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

Each day is a day of decision.

As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.