If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

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.

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.

Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.