I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

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.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

Let's say financially. Financially, I personally believe that you should have enough to do the assignment that you feel is part of your life. And whatever that is to do, you're going to need.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.