Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

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.

We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

Models never say, "I'm hot." They say, "Look at these clothes." Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot."

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.