Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

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.

I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.

when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.