Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.

It is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.