I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

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.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

Israel is in my heart.

To keep it simple, why did God choose me? Because He felt like it!

I love to cook.. but nothing that had to die.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!