"I'm very involved in the writing on every level."

"I'm very involved in the writing on every level."

"... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!"

"Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover."

"Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover."

"Our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses."

"I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing."

"I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing."

"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."

"I've lived three lifetimes in my short time."

"I've lived three lifetimes in my short time."

"I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore."

"I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore."

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."

"My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony."

"I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world."

"In order to understand, I destroyed myself."

"I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect"

"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love."

"I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist."

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

"My past is everything I failed to be."

"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it"

"I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer."