The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

You are enough.

Don't worry about a thing 'cause every little thing gonna be alright.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed.