I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.

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 is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

The only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, OK? They're the only who ask.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.

It's just so weird when an entire nation knows what you are going through.