It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.

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.

In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.