The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

I don't worry about new home sales

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.