It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!

-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

I know, at the time it was an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.