Larry McMurtry

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.