If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

God helps those who strut their stuff.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

I don't necessarily think veganism is going to save the world.

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.