“I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.”

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

People are always ruining things for you.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.

I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.

Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

Sleep tight, ya morons!

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

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

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.