My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.
History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.
I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.
Don't chase women, they will chase you. They are like horses in a pasture: if you don't go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.
That amazing moment when your crush has a crush on you. It's a wonderful feeling knowing that the person who you want to be in a relationship with likes or loves you back.
I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'
I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.
I've used the laws of the country to my advantage.
I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it. . . . I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.