You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.

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.

I offer you my soulWithin are my flawsMy grace, my kindnessMy love for you"The Offer

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

He made all countries where he came his own.

Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings