Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

After wisdom comes wit.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.