And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.

Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.

Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.