I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.