No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.