In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.