If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism, ...

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.