After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

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.

Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries.

An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

When we change our thoughts, we can truly change the world.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

Success is not a stop sign.

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.