We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Have the STRENGTH to say “no” to the status quo. Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Some people run away to be alone, others to see who will follow

I've been very lucky because I've always had movies to do. So if I got bored between shows a movie would turn up.

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.

Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.