I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

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.

Remember that reading these quotes will not change your life. These quotes only work to push you in the right direction. You are the only one who can change you.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

I think ultimately what makes the show is not the reality but the drama.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.