a lot of beautiful people are stupid. There’s a tremendous amount of idiots who look so good. It’s frightening.

I am someone who is there for you when I'd rather be somewhere else. . . .

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times...

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self...

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

No expectations, no disapointments.