Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.