I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

To work (at a job) is to sacrifice the life you have at the moment

Excess makes the heart grow fonder...

...but fear of death gives us strength.

Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm capitalism is that kind of a system.

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.