A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.

In life you get the choice, it depends on what you choose and how you live with the consequences to whether you win or lose!

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.

My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

Think about laughing and laugh about thinking.