What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I work to stay alive.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

I've lost my faith in science.

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.

My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.

I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting.

Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests.

I still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.

Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuriating at times when they're little, but on the whole, they're such a joy. I don't think I was the most brilliant mother when they were young. I had quite a bit of help because I was working and I enjoyed my work.