“I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”

You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend – those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

That’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I haven’t killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

Nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

A good man always knows his limitations.

Directing is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.

I’d like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there’s so many real reasons to hate others.

I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.