It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

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 last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.