Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Poor Ramon.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

I care about the children of Detroit.

I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.