I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Accomplishment begins with two words: 'I'll try.'

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.