Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.

I Twitter (or Facebook) therefore I am

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.