Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.

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.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction.

There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.

Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone