You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

I do stay busy. I like new challenges.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

God’s image is in us all, so you can’t regard God when you disregard His people

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

What you see will hurt you

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.