First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.

I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.

You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

New York City has the most beautiful women.

What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.