Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

I am the other.

Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.

The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.

If you women continue to demand your choice to work, you will so upset the economy of this country that the time will come when you will not have a choice. You will have to work.

People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.