I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do 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.

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches

If you're a ghost, " he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.

It’s a lot harder to pull your head up and ask why.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.

Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.