“There are two types of people: those that are going somewhere and those that ain't.”

“Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.”

“The only thing in life that's really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants--whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they're no good, I put it down. Maybe it's good...”

“I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.”

“In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.”

“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

“He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he ...”

“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”

“Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.”

“You float like a feather," sings Radiohead, "In a beautiful world." I've listened several times to the Radiohead songs, because it was nice of Raymond to say he heard a bit of them in what I sang. ...”

“I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.”

“War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”

“The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.”

“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”