And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)

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.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear.

Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

A network marketing business is the perfect business for people who like helping other people.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.