My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

There's music in everything, even defeat

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years