They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.