... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think

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.

Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

The only way to always be relevant is to focus on what's eternal. Everything in style will soon be out of style.

I'm a registered conservative.