There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.
You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.
You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.