One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

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.

Gukora icyaha uri wenyine biroroha ariko kuramya Imana wenyine biragora

What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.

What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has!

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

You were born original don't die a copy

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

Somebody who is unique - and this will get me into trouble - by definition cannot be replaced.

If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.