Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.

You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem, ’ I tell him.

Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.

Do many guys ask you out twice?""Only the ones with balls.

I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.

Tonight’s going to be one of those things that seem to last forever.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.