I've never been a teacher in my life.

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.

Epitaph to a waiter: By and by God caught his eye.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.