It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

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.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

Every blade has two edges

All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.

It's important to note that aggression isn't the problem. It's the outcome of a problem.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.