I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

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.

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 am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Because the truth is, it isn't worth loving something if you aren't going to love it all the way.

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.