My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

He’d spent so much time in the penalty box for fighting last season, he’d been tempted to hang a picture and maybe set up a lava lamp, it had felt so much like home

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are, ' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

he imagined fate as a goddess, capricious and fickle, or as a river, which could flood at any moment

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

President Bush is a friend of mine. He's not a moron at all.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."