Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.