Real success is not on the stage but off the stage as a human being and how you get along with your fellow man.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife my three children some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

I believe success is preparation because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

My career started young and I was really ambitious and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture people start asking two questions which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

Which is - you know like check it out I'm pretty young I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book right?

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Anytime you play a team sport the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.