Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. Just be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. In short, be yourself, but always your better self.

I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.