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

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.

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.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Teaching is a craft

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

You don't go to a race track to finish second.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.