He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

I'd love to be what I have been.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.