Convention is another name for the habits of society.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.

Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Hope sinks a world of imagination.

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

Ladies, if you saw me jackin off in a ferrari would you be jealous?

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.