maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love

in a slapfight with Jesusmy face bleedsbecause no one cut their fingernails back then

I believe that open-heart surgery is a mustfor all human beings

once I trained for the Olympics but panic is not a sport

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Don't worry about the future.

Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.