Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy, ” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.