I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
It's not important to me that people understand me.
My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
