Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.

One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

Whatever is going to happen is already happening.

She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.