How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

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.

Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give...

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.