And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

You saved my life.I trust you until you give me a reason to do otherwise

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.