I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.

I think you always have regrets.

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities of the laws themselves and of their construction.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

You know what's just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds.

'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Never let the sun go down on your anger

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

I don't usually have facials.

I did pretty well busking. I would play two to eight hours a day, and I could make two or three hundred an hour.