A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.