As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

The cliche is dead poetry.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate the husband the landscape.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values; that is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Here is a city built in a wilderness. Philip II chose the site for no other reason than that it was the geographic centre of Spain.

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

Respect your success.

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

I have a very fun life. I don't recommend it for anybody else, but it sure has been fun for me.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

How stubborn are the scars when they wont fade away or just a gentle reminder that now are better days.

I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.

I get bored if I do the same thing. The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.