I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

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.

He wanted to tell her that if it were simply a matter of crossing the river Styx and trading places with Beau, he'd be gone in a heartbeat.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.