It’s history. It’s poetry.

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.

It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

Who is willing to suffer for a Savior they won't even trouble themselves to learn about?

Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer!

An experience which seeks not to change you, is one not worth having.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Humble people dont get Offended easily.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.