Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

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.

Your heart is the compass, Your soul is the journey...

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.

I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.