I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

People never believe you.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

People never notice anything.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

I've survived a lot of things, and I'll probably survive this.

A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make you feel high, for the single greatest comodity known to man - promise.

Even a little self control can save you a lot of timeIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

My skin is very sensitive.

I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

The entitlement state has driven us into insolvency.

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

I dont wish to be everything to everyone but I would like to be something to someone.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the universe.

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.