I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Don't ever ever believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America like America love America and then work.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work ' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end and if it is I am the only one who can win it.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes ' he said his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

In a very real sense it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

For me every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.