The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

If you're explaining, you're losing.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

I established strong connections between Rockwell and Israel Aircraft Industries.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.