They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

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.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

God is Love but He also is the Lawgiver

I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots