I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Normal is the average of deviance.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

Every guitar has a personality.

With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.

I'm not going to say it's easy, but I do have an ease with picking up fight choreography because of my dance training.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.