I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a...

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves...

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.