Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

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.

I'm sorry. I just meant that all this is new to me. I get lost sometimes." I give her my most honest expression.

Language is the art of experience

I didn't mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it's turned into this 'It-girl' thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It's so weird.

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.