If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.