Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

I think I know the delights of freedom

Men like cars women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.