A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.