I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you…to be a better man.

Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

I belong deeply to myself.