You must always conduct your business with a clear mind, free of personal issues. Until you learn this simple fact, you'll never get anything out of life. -Moses Luzzatto

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.