To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse. Use this quote
I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year. Use this quote
We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is. Use this quote
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. Use this quote
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Use this quote
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. Use this quote
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. Use this quote
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. Use this quote
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. Use this quote
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. Use this quote
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. Use this quote
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. Use this quote
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Use this quote
A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage. Use this quote
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. Use this quote
I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner! Use this quote
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? Use this quote
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Use this quote
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. Use this quote
But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it. Use this quote
