I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

Returning to my dreams was like returning to home after a long time of being away - everything was exactly the same as you left it, except infinitely better.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

The only sin is pride.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.