... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

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.

So now i know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'de rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone i can't predict.

Live in the moment... where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.

There is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior.

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

The trouble is, I know too much about how to cook to be satisfied with a cook.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

The majority of people who come to America come to America for a better life for their family.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.