Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

God has joy for you right now.

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.