Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.
I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.
One man's bane is another's bliss.
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.