I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

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.

It's the little things that make big things happen.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.

Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.

So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.

I need instant gratification.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.