I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy

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.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

For girls, something that accentuates the curves looks sexy. It can be a dress, it can be jeans, it can be a tank top, who cares!

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

....a perfect paper airplane.

The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.