I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first.

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.