He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Truth is something believed in heart.Fact is anything happened in realities.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

To get what you want you must communicate with others in a way that inspires them to want to give it to you.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.