I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.

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.

Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?

...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.