Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

Fear is natural, but love is eternal. Never be fearful of love.

...If the world gets saved in the process, don’t blame me. It happens.

In theory, the idea of eternity in heaven singing God’s praises sounds really good, but when I realize I have to go through the death part to get there, I’m not quite so enamored with the idea.

May we be free of the tyranny of our expectations of others.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.