Piano is like drudgery.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Enjoy every sandwich.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Um, I don't know, really [about my future.]

The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.