There are still a few men who love desperately.

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.

There are a lot of things I want, " I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.

Funny thing about revenge. It could make a killer out of a nun.

...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?

God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

People know what I'm doing.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.