And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

What you really need to build a character is exactly what you don't have in the movies - time. You know, movies are like a line drawing. You have to make very quick decisions, which are, in the end instinctive. Or you make a decision to say "Well, maybe I can do that, because... Oh, that could be irritating after a while, or distracting, etc. etc." Some of it is a matter of time, always.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.