The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

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.

Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.

I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.

We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn

When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

You have the power to create your own destiny. You just need to decide what you want and how badly you want it.

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.