I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

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.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

No more, ' I told him. 'No more running in the wrong direction... You run to me'.

Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

A man is powerful on his knees.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.