I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

You must clear out what you don't want, to make room for what you do want to arrive.

I gave up drinking coffee for you. I swapped pizza for produce, and this is what I get in return?

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

If the referee happens to be in the way you just yell, 'move or I'll break your ankles!' which I used to do with referees. Some refs will stop and watch the fight it drives you crazy.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.