The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

Each murder is one too many.

I think there's still room for compelling voices to build up and get a great following.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.