There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

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.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

You are the light of the world. You are an instrument of the Divine. You are the greatest miracle in the world. Life is graced by your presence.

Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.

[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.