Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!