If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

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.

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled.

Many people look but they do not see.

Id rather be nauseous than tired, I think.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.