Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

You can kill time or kill yourself it comes to the same thing in the end.

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs.

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.