There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

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.

Start each day as a great adventure.

I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables

Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can't be foreseen.

My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

The destination is made more meaningful by and through the journey. Don't give up!" HS/EL

Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion

[Andy Cohen] enjoy your fame more than anyone I know.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.