I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

power the mojave desert with miles & miles of solar panels!

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.

I love doing kids' films.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.