The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations.

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.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith