Do not lie to the Scholar.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.

Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.