I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

I feel like a real dead one: having neither blood to bleed nor any flesh or bone to feel the scars

You can't write a poem until you live.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.