There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.

I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.