I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prison. They simply extended into objective reality what was already a subjective reality. Only jailers really believe in jails.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed it was the truth for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo and if an echo sounded no matter how faintly I would send other words to tell to march to fight to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Men can starve from a lack of self realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

I try to take each moment at a time.

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Usually I'll have fruit with breakfast, but not on the day of the race, as sometimes it's difficult to digest. When racing Olympic distance, I'll have my last meal three hours before the race, and during the race I'll have a gel. I think it's enough.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

The thing intellectuals understand least is themselves.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation but as a human family.

I have a blessed life.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.