Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

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.

Distress is fearful gloom.

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

We must endure to the end; . . . We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)