She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

When men are employed they are best contented.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?