God, I wish you could have been there.

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.

People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Jewellery is a great way to take your look from day to night.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.