If you want something done right, just forget it.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.