"If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up."

“That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.”

Source : "Live From..." with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2003.

“I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.”

“People make institutions, not vice versa.”

Source : Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

“When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.”

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.”

“When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.”