“I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.”

I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.

Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.

All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.

For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.

When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.

The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

There’s a lot of falses – out there and if I take up for myself, it’s a bad thing. Sometimes you just got to live with it, but for the most part, I’m like look, I don’t want no problems with nobody.

This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in charge of my writing, in a gigantic minuscule game which nobody has yet described.

I’ve just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don’t think I’m ahead of anybody.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We’ve always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government’s responsibility.

I’m not out here to be beefing with nobody.

Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they’re a woman. They don’t want to be discriminated against because they’re a woman.

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you’re constantly trying to figure out, ‘Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?’ It’s like trying to defuse a bomb.