People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

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.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!