The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

Why would I hate you?""Because I was being, as Oscar made a point of telling me later, the most unlikable version of myself

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.

The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.