To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn’t happened, though. At least not yet.

What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)