The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

You are only in control of your choices.

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.