There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

HAPPINESS IS A BASIC RIGHT OF HUMANITY...BE HAPPY REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES!

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.