If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Love is everything a person desires for in his life, but love is not in getting love, but giving the most love you have to others

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.