In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

If you are capable, then you should not be inactive.

Some people think the devil is one being. I think the devil is when many beings come together to do terrible things. You are looking at the Terrible.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Practice, the master of all things.

There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.