Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

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.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

I collect things that just look retarded.

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.