People are always ruining things for you.

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.

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years.

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.