For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
Nothing in the world is single All things by law divine In one another's being mingle Why not I with thine?
One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.
All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.
You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.
I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.
