Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Never economize on luxuries.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

You are more than the choices that you make, You are more than the sum of your past mistakes, You are more than the problems you create.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

Feelings can't be a part of this game.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".