Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

That lovely face sets off a fire inside me that isn't ever supposed to burn.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.