Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

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.

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.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

I'll always choose you.Gabe Willoughby

As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.