All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.