I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.