Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

The more you talk ...the more mistakes you're likely to make.

When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

If you want results, they don't come for free.

Don't be sad and don't give up on your dreams. Dreams will come true one day. There's no person as beautiful as a person who dreams

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.