Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

So little time and so little to do.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Ballet is the fairies baseball.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.

It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.