Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak...

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.