Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.

Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.