The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Do you remember when we learned how to fly? We'd play make-believe, we were young and had time on our side

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

I love going out. I love partying.

There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.

I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

I'm male. You rubbed your...femaleness all over me. I didn't think. I reacted.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.