Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.