regret

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don__ believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.