It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

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.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

Do not go by my humble beginnings. Be wary of my enormous vision.

Just because you're with someone, doesn't mean you're not alone.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

Substance should outweigh perfection.

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.