You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

I really want to get the word out that I am still relevant and have something to say.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.