The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.