It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

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.

These were reflections that required some time to soften

The sacredness of solitude is spiritualty

In time take time while time doth last for time Is no time when time is past.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.