Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

We have to get you a haircut sometime today. You're starting to look like a sulky rock star." "Well, I am a rock star, " he said, deadpan

I wouldn't take nothin' but a Ford: F-O-R-D, period. Ain't nothin' like a Ford. I wouldn't drive a Chevrolet 'cause I can't spell it.

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

These are icons to be treasured.

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.