True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.

Many people only live for today

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.