That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

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.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

Love is the greatest form of evangelization because it makes an invisible God visible.

You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy