I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter.

Saying 'I'm sorry' earns you my attention

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.