The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.

Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is something you lose on this side of things.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.