Give me an honest con man any day.

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.

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.

The world's become a little too mean.

I'm somebody that you should know.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Know where your money is because we're going to see bank failures, one after another.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.