Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.