The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

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.

Your presence is enough to go through life. More and more you observe life, more and more you can let lose yourself with the free flow of life.

We're assigned to children who are doomed.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.