Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

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.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

Trying to express yourself is more powerful than trying to be the best.

I don't like attacking.

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.