An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

The holy knowledge is the fear of God.

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

I don't believe in hasty marriages.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

There's a tremendous power and energy in sharing your life with another person.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.