I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

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.

Every fall happens in a slow fade.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I’ve lost.

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.