Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Today I am amused, and I haven't seen anyone yet.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

I never cry about what I don't have. I'm always positive.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.