If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

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 have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Set your strong intention, work hard, and pray, slowly but surely, what you strive for will come to be. This is God’s law.” -127

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.