A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Insanity is nothing more than ordinary.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.