I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about 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.

Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.