if somebody at least listens it not too bad

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've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.

I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

There's a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

Every day you try to get better.