Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it?

To be a success, be yourself.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

I have other fish to fry.

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.