Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don´t give up.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

I have someone. He's 25. It's nothing serious.