Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.