You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

Hard work is greater than lazy talent.

I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?