A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence..

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40..

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love..

The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now..

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures..

I've been racketeered on..

You find out what's in you when it comes out.

You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live..

Either is both, and Both is neither..

It's great to represent things that are not represented..

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex..

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstan….

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is..

Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it..

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have..

With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes..

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't..

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bu….

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end..

Do your best. And then let life do the rest..

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from ….