Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.