A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul for literary fame, since the soul is a writer's inner voice...

You will have a lot of difficulties in achieving goals if you are indecisive and if you are afraid of incorrect actions

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

Foreign meddling elections is bad whether it's done by the Russians here or by us or anyplace else.

Elections are about the future.

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.