As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

I'm going to live to be twenty-five, ' she said, 'then die.

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

Darkness, that is, ignorance, limits our visibility.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.