As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some peanuts and take some beer and tell some lies.

I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down, and now is that time.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

First make peace inside yourself.

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.

Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.