Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

People are coming together - Democrats, Republicans, Independents - all of us to reject hate and division.

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.