I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

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.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Imagination is the propulsion of Life once we exhaust all reality.

Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.