God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

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.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The more you lose, the more you don't win.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.