I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.

Never get married in college its hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds youve already made one mistake.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

Lips are the most sensual organ we are allowed to expose.

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

Character building begins in infancy and continues until death.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

If I had my way, I'd wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley

I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.