He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.

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.

I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Economized love is never real love.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.