“When all else fails, read the instructions.”

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Hmm, should I stay on the underground when everybody else is selling out?’ Nowadays, you can just do it – have your name-brand clothes, do songs with rock n’ rollers – and it’s not considered selling out.

Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.

Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.