I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

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.

Ask the Lord to reveal to you the reason why He created you

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

I think the trend to control speech - and therefore thought - continues. Because of the freer flow of information now, there's more on the side of free thought.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

We need to embrace the differences between our cultures and love them.