The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'