I've been a free man.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

I really like the song "Only One" [ Kanye West with Paul McCartney].

I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.