"We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

"A good deed never goes unpunished."

"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."

"Nobody wants to hear R&ampB. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young."

"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man."

"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."