I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

The Katrina matter was terrible.