But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Change anything about your life that cannot be accepted. Accept everything about your life that cannot be changed and move on with your big dreams!

Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.