My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

No one can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Your beliefs create your world.

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

The covetous man is always poor.

In America, money takes the place of God.

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.