It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

To create an inner peace of mind, be humble, gentle, harmonious, and kind.

The ocean cradles the bloodied moon in its aquatic arms like a mother holds her crying babe.

Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?

I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control?

Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.