The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

Passion can’t be planned

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

There is no time like the pleasant.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier.

Life's a roller coaster, and you never know when it's going to take a turn.