I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

I give away examples!

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

Think you have a low opinion of government? You should see government's opinion of you!

That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.