At times there will be fire

Opportunities will never notify you before knocking, but you need to be ready to open the doors.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.