For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.