I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

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.

Between a man and a woman, betrayal is not the ultimate sin. It is the withdrawal and departure from one another devoid of a decent just!

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

I'll be so quiet for you. Look like a child for you. Be like a shadow of a shadow Of a shadow for you.

You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.